Example sentences of "may [adv] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may only have seen the property once , and for all sorts of emotive reasons , may have fallen in love with the place . |
| 2 | ‘ Relax ’ may only have become a scandal when the BBC in belated confusion ( and in response to teasing video clips ) banned it , but singers Holly Johnson and Paul Rutherford promote an explicitly gay image , and ‘ Two Tribes ’ was a pointed response to nuclear defence policy . |
| 3 | But when you have a situation where youngsters of 12 or 13 — and in some cases even younger — who may only have won a couple of matches , are being offered $500,000 guarantees to sign up with one of the management companies before they are snapped up by one of the rival agents , the potential for long term damage is enormous . ’ |
| 4 | But Mr Lawson and the Bank may only have bought a week for sterling . |
| 5 | The editor might also have noted the colloquial sense of roaming around which the verb shatatsya carries , for this may perhaps have encouraged the switch from Shaposhnikov to Shatov as the novel began to define itself . |
| 6 | After Kissingen Alexander made Kavelin tutor to the heir to the throne , but he may not have realized the extent of the tutor 's radicalism . |
| 7 | They may not have monitored the firm 's management terribly closely . |
| 8 | The oldest , the first born if you like , the , the nearer one may have reje , may not have accepted the right to redeem her , but Ruth is not , has not been rejected because there is another kinsman waiting . |
| 9 | AFTER THEY HAD WRITTEN ‘ I 'm Too Sexy ’ , a plugger called Guy Holmes — who may or may not have heard the song working out at the Putney gym , the Dance Attic , which Fred managed and Richard worked at — got interested . |
| 10 | Radovan may not have completed the work on the doorway , but his pupils continued in his style . |
| 11 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 12 | Another Nottingham volunteer , Sue , said , ‘ I may not have lost a lot in pounds but it 's great to know I can lose inches from parts I did n't think I could ever reduce . ’ |
| 13 | This implies that people who can not remember things may not have lost the information — but may need to access it differently . |
| 14 | But does it matter as when you think that she may not have made a will , because then everything will go to her er next of kin as one says , intestacy rules . |
| 15 | ‘ I gather that your brother may not have made a will ; so what happens now ? ’ |
| 16 | The fact is that we give exceptional leave to remain because it would be inhumane to send some people , such as the Croatian that the hon. Member mentioned , back to their country at this time , even though they may not have made a claim of persecution . |
| 17 | The lack of a licence in Barlow Clowes ' early years may or may not have made a difference to the way investors ' funds were handled during that time . |
| 18 | Food may not have become a weapon , but the failure of Soviet agriculture to meet its peoples ' demands was a wound that contributed to the collapse of Soviet power in the second half of the 1980s . |
| 19 | Turnips and clover , for example , may not have been really widely used until the nineteenth century , and the diffusion of knowledge across the countryside may not have exceeded a mile a year from the points of origin ( Deane 1979 ) . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman may not have noted the fact that we continue to encourage the Malawian Government to apply the principles of accountable government that they endorsed at the Harare Heads of Government meeting . |
| 21 | The acceptance of Dalton as his patron by the uncompromisingly idealistic Richard seems odd , though he may not have realised the character of the man at this stage . |
| 22 | fatet : firstly , the child may not have seen the word written down , and so may be attempting to spell a visually unknown word ; secondly , the d-t error is caused by the similarity of the sounds ( cf. 5(d) below ) . |
| 23 | I may not have seen the race , but I 've had enough people describe both the race and Jackie 's driving to know what a result it was . |
| 24 | We may not have watched the Toraja dynasty ascend through a flaming village circle , but we had witnessed one of its sons , very close , leap through a flaming hoop and land on his feet . |
| 25 | Nihilist is the case but it risks confusion between Dostoevsky and Turgenev who may not have invented the word but certainly gave it very wide currency . |
| 26 | He may not have attracted the cameras in quite the way the Princess did , but he certainly brought recognition and respectability to every company or organization whose threshold he crossed . |
| 27 | Chafe suggests two variables which can be used to determine whether an item may or may not have left the addressee 's consciousness : |
| 28 | It was suggested that some existing pensioners , who may not have drawn the sum due to them on leaving the Bank , could now claim the sum due to them and donate it to the Fund . |
| 29 | It makes no difference that the parent may not have wished to go ( during the war ) or may not have had a choice ( death ) . |
| 30 | Introducing change , however , calls for patience , sensitivity and consideration for others who may not have had the opportunity to move on in their thinking . |